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Thunderbird search subfolders not working

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I am searching for an email to a certain person. When I search for messages in my main folder, with the "search subfolders" checked, it searches my inbox, but it does not search my sent box. I tried rebuilding the database, but that did not fix it. What should i try?

I am searching for an email to a certain person. When I search for messages in my main folder, with the "search subfolders" checked, it searches my inbox, but it does not search my sent box. I tried [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database rebuilding the database], but that did not fix it. What should i try?

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Sort the emails in alpha order and then scroll down to the location of that person in the list

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I don't want to do that because I want to search inbox and sent, etc. That would remove the benefit of being able to search

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